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1907 February 2, Saturday at Baddeck

Carriere della Sera 
Milan
21 Nov. 1906
Nuovi Premi per il concorso aereonautico del "Daily Mail"
Londra, 21 novembre, matt.
  Il Daily Mail annunzia che l'Adams Manufacture Company, proprietaria del brevetto per il motore Antoinette, di cui l'aereoplano di Santos Dumont era provvisto, offre 50,000 lire, da aggiungersi alle 25,000 offerte dal Daily Mail per il suo concorso a condizione che l'aereoplano vincitore sia costruito interamente nell'Impero britannico. Il giornale Motor Car offre pure unpremio di 12,500 lire al fabbricante del motore a petrolio di cui sarà provvista la macchina volante del vincitore del Daily Mail, purchè questo motore sia di fabbrica ingles.
  Il Daily Mail dice pure che ha ricevuto gran numero di lettere protestanti controle condizioni imposte ai concorrenti di essere membri di un Aereo Club conosciuto. Il giornale dichiara che la questione e stata sottoposta all'Aereo Club di Londra.
  D'altra parte, il Daily Graphic annunzia che i proprietari del Graphic e del Daily Graphic offrono 25,000 lire all'inventore che presenterà una macchina pio pesante dell'aria capace di volare con uno o parecchi passeggeri fra due dati punti, distanti un miglio almeno. Il punto di partenza ed il punto d'arrivo sarann designati dai proprietari dei due giornali. (St.).


Express London Eng.
21 Nov. 1906
Aeroplane's 24-Miles Flight
"Express" Correspondent
Paris, Tuesday Nov. 20.
  The New York correspondent of the "Auto" telegraphs that he has seen a certificate signed by 300 inhabitants of Dayton, Ohio, declaring that they saw the Wright brothers fly twenty-four miles consecutively in an aeroplane.
  The Wright brothers state that they are about to make trial flights with their new motors.
  Comte de la Vaulx, the famous French aeronaut, has ordered an aeroplane which he hopes will travel at forty miles an hour.

H Panaro
22 Nov. 1906 
Moodena[[?]]
La costruzione di un areoplano
Lonra, 22.
  Il <> annuncia che le Adam Company, proprietaria del brevetto per il motore <> di cui l'areoplano di Santos Dumont era provvisto, offre duemila lire sterline da aggiungere alla somma offerta dal <> a condizione che l'areoplano vincitore sia stato construito in Inghilterra. 
  Il giornale <> offre pure un premio al fabbricante del motore a petrolio di cui sara provvista la macchina volante del vincitore del premio del Daily Mail purchè il motore sia fabbricato in Inghilterra. 
  Il <> ha poi ricevuto un gran numero di lettere colle quali si protesta contro la condizione imposta ai concorrenti di essere membri di un club riconosciuto. Il giornale dichiara che la questione e stata sottoposta all'areo club di Londra.
  D'altra parte il <> annunzia che i proprietari del <> e del <> offrono 1000 Ls [[Liters]] all'inventore che presenterà una macchina più pesante dell'aria capace di volare con uno o più passeggeri tra due punti distanti almeno un miglio.
  Il punto di partenza e quello di arrivo saranno designati dai proprietari dei due giornali.

Argus Rock Island Ill. 
21 Nov 1906
Airships Soon to Cross Atlantic in 24 Hours, Says British Expert
  London, Nov. 21 -- From London to New York in 24 hours is the latest prediction from air travel enthusiasm. Walter Reid, expert adviser to the Aero club of the United Kingdom, who makes the prophecy, says its fulfillment only awaits the production of a well designed aerial motor. 
  "All the elements for the construction of such a motor exist," says Reid. "A motor weighing less than five pounds per horse power, can be constructed easily. Its structural material would be indefinitely stronger than any organic material in the world. A bird's wing is a marvelous structure, but it is heavy compared with the membrane available for the modern aeronaut."
  Reid emphasizes the necessity of devising an automatic steering gear, which, he explains, involves the problem of making an air machine automatically revert to a horizontal keel. This as evidenced by the torpedo, ought not to be difficult, he says. Steering then will be effected by diverting the machine from its normal balance. 

Standard From NY
21 Nov. 1906
Must Go Through Air Like a Bird.
  The intimation that Santos-Dumont in experiments with the aeroplane is really reverting to English ideas is not without a large element of justice. Sir Hiram Maxim, who has long made England his home, demonstrated the soundness of the principle underlying that device a dozen years ago. He used steam, not gasolene, as his motive power, and though he was seeking to test the efficiency of his propellers, in one trial that he gave to his machine it developed unexpected buoyancy, and lifted itself from the railway track on which it was designed to run.
  Major Baden-Powell, one of the leading British officers in aeronautics, gives the following as his idea of what is necessary to be done to travel through the air. 
  "I have come to this conclusion-The more closely we copy and study the bird the sooner we shall solve the problem of navigation. A bird rises from the ground as it likes, flies where it likes, either with or against the wind, and drops to the ground when it likes. it can fly even against a gale of wind, and I do not see why we should not do the same with our flying machines. Flying machines are sure to play an important part in the next war, but what we have to do first is to get rid of gas. A machine that will go up in the air and answer its helm just as a ship does now must prove and important factor in warfare. It can be used for so many purposes that no government can afford to neglect it, and all army authorities will have to take the flying machine into consideration when drawing their plans. There has been a great deal done lately, and I now think we have a machine that can be used in war. This is the Lebaudy, which, in my opinion, is the best that has yet been invented. These machines have emerged from the state of theory into the realms of the practical, and in a very little time I expect to see them going through the air at a rate from 25 to 30 miles an hour. For any kind of an aerial machine to be a success it must travel faster than the wind, the machine must fly at least 25 miles an hour. The objection to the present day balloon is that if a big wind suddenly springs up the balloon is able to be carried away. Therefore, it cannot be relied on, but when we once get rid of the balloon and come to the machine, then we shall have something that can be used in war just as easily as, and probably much more effectively [than the] automobile. Just consider what could be done with such a machine. An officer going up in it can spy out the enemy's land, see where his strength and weakness les and report to headquarters. This undoubtedly will be the use to which the flying machine will be put in the next war, and the time may, nay, will come when you can go up in the air and drop explosives wherever you choose. This shows how important the study of aerial navigation is, and all the first class military powers must reckon with it. I think a machine something like what the Wright brothers in America have made might be much better in war than the ordinary balloon. It has a very much smaller surface, according to its lifting power, and consequently is not so much dependent upon wind and weather. The ordinary balloon can be used only in favorable weather, but a flying machine similar to this American invention can be used at any time and for any purpose. I don't see any real difficulty now in the matter of navigation. This is being gradually attained, but the great question for military authorities is, What machine will list? On this will depend its usefulness, outside its work, of course, in enabling the areonaut [aeronaut] to spy on the enemy. If you get a machine that will carry heavy weights you at once have a formidable engine of warfare. Explosives could be carried and the enemy's magazines would be at the mercy of the aeronaut who could drop a powerful explosive on it to his own sweet will. The two important things are speed and weight, and until these are settles satisfactorily the flying machine cannot be used with certainty. However, I do not see why a machine should not be built that will be both a weight carrier and possess a great speed. The machine we are searching for is one that will lift rapidly and be as much under the aeronaut's control as an automobile [[page cut off]] the driver's [[page cut off]]

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Five newspaper clippings on one page. 1 & 3 seem to be in spanish?